In reality my 9 Generations Chart has a few gaps in the tree, starting with Generation 7 where there are 10 ancestors missing.

Generation 7 should have 64 ancestors but there are only 54 identified

Generation 1 – Me

Generation 2 – My Parents

Generation 3 – My Grandparents 4 people

Generation 4 – My Great Grandparents 8 people

Generation 5 – My Great Great Grandparents 16 people

Generation 6 – My 3X Great Grandparents 32 people

Generation 7 – My 4X Great Grandparents 64 people

Generation 8 – My 5X Great Grandparents 128 people

Generation 9 – My 6X Great Grandparents 256 people

Ideally there should be 511 people on the tree

I searched again for the missing parents of Agnes Lee. Agnes Lee is in Generation 6. No luck in finding her missing parents in Generation 7. So that means I’m also missing her 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents in generations 8 and 9. Things compound rapidly.

This is my board covered with post-its of the ancestors. Each color represents a different generation. Just looking at where a person comes in the ladder of parent to child doesn’t always correspond to the times lived in by the majority of others on that rung. There are some anomalies but I’ll try to explain them where they occur.